nearing the big sleep

[robbiegal]

lifelong dyslexia doesn't help but has nothing to do with solace and solstice mind you!! but I did keep the world a safer place by not becoming an atomic engineer ha ha

some more winter solace for our boy
wonder if Trout caught a glimpse of the sky show over there in WA?
Hobart

Goulburn


Canberra (3.00 am - I was in a warm bed snoring and not out on the ranges)

I hadn't realise that the Aurora coincided with the solstice

More precisely, in 2015 the southern winter solstice occurs at 02:38am AEST on Monday June 22. At this moment the Sun is at its most northerly point on its path through the sky and directly above the line of the Tropic of Cancer. While it will be dark in Australia, somewhere on the Tropic of Cancer it will be 12 noon locally and the Sun will be directly overhead. That somewhere will be in the west Atlantic ocean just north of the Dominican Republic and any yacht sailing there will cast no shadow.

The solstice is a natural turning point in the year. Historically it was a time of new beginnings, of rebirth and revival. From now on the days will lengthen and the warmth of summer is on its way.

Although Monday is solstice day itself you wont notice much difference in the length of the day over the weekend. So make the most of the long nights and watch Venus, Jupiter and the Moon shining in the western evening sky.

[Goldseeker]

We saw the three the other night but didn't see any of the light show though.

I live in Melbourne's Western Suburbs.

[robbiegal]

did you take a pic?

did it feel great seeing even what you did see?

I have never seen one

[JeffH]

I have strolled outside a few times in the last hour to gaze at the Venus/Jupiter conjunction.
With a clear sky and cold, crisp air Venus looks truly spectacular -like a Christmas card illustration of  the Star of Bethlehem; only better.
Hurry, you have only about an hour before they set (a few hours for trout and Triggersmob).

[Triggersmob]

I have strolled outside a few times in the last hour to gaze at the Venus/Jupiter conjunction.
With a clear sky and cold, crisp air Venus looks truly spectacular -like a Christmas card illustration of  the Star of Bethlehem; only better.
Hurry, you have only about an hour before they set (a few hours for trout and Triggersmob).

Thanks for the heads up Jeff.
Just been out for a butcher's hook.

[Goldseeker]

Overcast outside my place.   Can't see nuffin!

[robbiegal]

as usual I missed it but here are 2 Canberra pics taken by those who haven't
one of the astrophysicist's pics

Here is the view from the Canberra Deep Space Tracking Station, Neighbour Stromlo.. DSS45 is the Antenna on the right of the pic.


AJ will have some great pics to look at when he logs in at 3.00 am this coming morning

[JeffH]

" When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars"
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius

The days are getting longer now (actually just just the daylight hours -they are all still 24 hours except the day that just had a leap second) so, let the sunshine in.

[robbiegal]

hummm
I gather that there is quite a variety of opinions on the actual start of that age